"When I was writing the book Luis Suarez had been in trouble again for biting another opponent," Barron, from Darlington, said.

"So when I needed a striker to complete my monstrous line-up he seemed to fit the bill."

Daydreaming Daisy McCloud is set in a monsters school and, thanks to Suarez, features a vampire with fangs called Luis.

Suarez has hit the headlines on a number of occasions in his career, firstly in the Netherlands in 2010 when still with Ajax, before the infamous incident with Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic three years later.